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Present Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to secure his fifth presidential term in the March 17 elections, extending his leadership to over 25 years, the most prolonged tenure since Joseph Stalin’s. With the Kremlin managing the electoral process with an iron grip, Putin encounters no significant challengers. His continued presidency comes amid the ongoing two-year conflict in Ukraine and as Russia’s economy adjusts to severe international sanctions, ensuring that his governance extends at least until 2030.

Who will be the next President of the United States? Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the current and former Presidents, are competing for the White House. They won most of the seats in the Super Tuesday primary. This is the first time in almost 70 years that such a competition is taking place. However, Americans find it difficult to decide between the two candidates as there is little enthusiasm.

The far right trends in the elections in European countries continued as Portugal voters gave the centre-right Democratic Alliance(AD) and the far right Chega Party a clear mandate to rule the country of 10.2 million people for the next term defeating the ruling Socialist Party and the other small left groups including the Communist Party. The elections for the 230 member national assembly held on March 10 was one of the closest in the history of Portugal which has been considered a comparatively liberal nation in the continent till now.

The United States in its latest “let’s alleviate Gazans’ condition” will build a port on the Gaza coastline for easing the movement of relief into the war-torn city of the dead and a few living. This isn’t President Joe Biden’s brainwave, but the POTUS mentioned it in his “fiery” State of the Union address which also saw Biden pull-up Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for being the reason for everything rotten in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas massacre.

The Gaza war has turned Palestine into a lightning rod for mounting frustration and discontent in Arab autocracies such as Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Concerned that the war could mobilise segments of civil society, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates where any form of public protest is banned, have cracked down on expressions of solidarity with Gaza, including the sporting of keffiyehs, the chequered scarf that symbolises Palestinian nationalism.

President Joe Biden’s last State of the Union address before the 2024 elections laid out an agenda of sharp contrasts, with economic populism dominating domestic policy and Cold War confrontation and militarism defining his international strategy.

Asking for the moon ceased to denote seeking the impossible ever since the first man landed on earth’s sole god-made satellite in the year 1969, it didn't matter whether it was a "blue moon" or a "hunter's moon." What had been a giant leap for mankind is now going to take several steps ahead with the drawing up of the blueprint of setting up a nuclear outpost on the soil of the "Queen of the Night". A nuclear power plant is likely to come up by the mid-2030s, a collaboration between Russia and China to lay the groundwork for a potential lunar settlement, said Yuri Borisov who heads ‘Roscosmos’, Russia's space agency.

On Friday, March 1, Mexico’s left-wing Morena party marked the beginning of the country’s official presidential campaign season with a kickoff event in Mexico City’s central square, or Zócalo. Before a maximum-capacity crowd and following an introduction by the party’s mayoral candidate for the city, Clara Brugada, presidential standard-bearer Claudia Sheinbaum laid out a hundred-point plan for building the “second floor of the transformation.”.MexicoI going for te Presidential elections on June 2 this year.

Sweden joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Europe is more secure. Finland joined and it wasn't similar hype. Finland is Sweden's neighbour. Both added muscle to NATO. The feeling runs deep — deeper than the Atlantic Ocean — that the more European countries join NATO, the more threatened Russia will feel and threatening Russia’s expansionism is the raison de’ etre for NATO. It is no laughing matter, but the free nations of NATO take this dictum seriously.

Iranian elections are over and given the counting trends, moderates will be taking a back seat while the hardliners are set to sweep the polls..Reformist movement has been in steady decline for years and was further damaged by the previous president, Hassan Rouhani. The reformists backed Rouhani in elections even though he was not a reformist. He failed to deliver change during his two four year tenure.